Hair curling device and method of curling hair



April 7, 1942. s. FREEMAN ,2 ,5

HAIR CURLING DEVICE AND METHOD OF CURLING HAIR Filed Sept. 16, 1936 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 (0a. ag" INVgNTOR BY Mme fgaM/w ATTORNEYS.

April 7, 1942. s. FREEMAN 2,278,541

HAIR CURLING DEVICE AND METHOD OF CURLING HAIR Fi led Sept. 16, 1936 2 Sheets- Sheet 2 INVE NTOR fipwmau.

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Samuel Freeman, New York, N. Y. Application September 16, 1936, Serial No. 101,023

6 Claims.

My invention relates to a new and improved haircurling device, and a new method of curlin hair.

One of the objects of my invention is to devise certain improvements over U. 8. Patent No. 2,039,789.

Another object of my invention is to provide a device of simple and improved design.

Another object of my invention is to coil a lock of hair into spiral form, wholly spaced from the shanks of a hair pin, and then to shift said spiral curl of hair over one of the shanks and between said shank and the other shank of the hair pin, and then to clamp the curl between said shanks.

Other objects of my invention will be set forth in the following description and drawings which illustrate certain preferred embodiments thereof,

tion more clearly.

Figs..3, 4 and 5 are respectively sectional views on the lines 3-3, 4-4 and 5-5 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 6 is a side elevation showing a second embodiment of the invention, with the hair pin in position.

Fig. 7 is, an inner side elevation of one of the body-parts of the bottom holder member which is shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

Fig. la is a top plan view of the intermediate holder member which is shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 7b is an inner side elevation of the second. body part of the bottom holder member which is shown'in Figs. 1 and 2.

Fig. 8 is a side elevation, partially in section, of the assembled top and intermediate holder members which are shown in Fig. 1.

Fig; 9 is a sectional vizw on the line 9-9 of Fig. 7a. 1 v

Fig. 10 is a top plan view of a holder made according to a third embodiment of the invention, the hair pin being shown in position.

Fig. 11 is a side elevation of, the holder, for the hair pin which is illustrated in Fig. 10.

Fig. 12 is a sectional view on the line I2--I2 of Flg..13 is a detail view partially broken away,

andshows a modified tip of the device shown in Fig. 11.

The device shown in Fig. 1 comprises a bottom member I. This bottom member I is made of two body parts and said body parts can be made by casting or stamping or by any other suitable method of working metal or other material.

Said body parts are shown in Figs. '7 and 7b. The first body part comprises a bar having an inner planar face which has a longitudinal recess or groove 3 which extends to the inner end of said bar. Said bar has a finger-hold extension 4 and a half-collar 2a.

The other body part has a corresponding groove 3, a finger-hold extension la and a halfcollar 2b and lugs 5 and 6.

When these body parts are assembled, lug 5 extends through opening in and lugs 8 extend through openings in. Said lugs are then upset so as'to form a rivet-like connection. The halfcollar members 20 and 2b then form a collar 2.

For convenience, the parts are described with reference to Fig. 1, although the two parts of the device may be held in any desired relative position.

The intermediate member I of the holder has a bore 8. As shown in Fig. 7a the upper surface of the member I is provided with a longitudinal recess 9.

Said member I is providedwith an enlargement I2, which has the shape of a partial collar, which is open adjacent the longitudinal recess or groove 9. Said member I is provided with a second enlargement I211, at its outer or rear end and with a knurled head I2b. Said member I has a channel I4, in which the rear end of the top clamping member III of the holdercan be movably located.

. The bore 8 can extend up to the partial collar I2 so that member I is of general tubular shape in front of partial collar I2.

Said clamping member I0 has a convexo-con- Q A spring I8 normallyholds the clamping member I0, in the position. which is illustrated in Fig.

2 I. Said spring II is an ordinary helical compression spring. the bottom of which rests in a behind the pivot pin II, is downwardly oifset up to the upwardly projecting finger hold ll so that said downwardly ofiset portion is below the top of the edges of thechannel ll.

Adjacent the pivot pin II, and in front of said is, so that the corresponding shank of the hair pin H is always spaced longitudinally from the outer end of the clamping member II.

The embodiment shown in Figs. -12 illustrates a simpler form of holder. This consists essentially of the hollow member or tube 25, having a clamping member 26 pivotaliy connected pivot pin and also behind said pivot pin II, the

clamping member II is formed with a depressed rib II which extends up to finger-hold ll. That portion of said depressed rib M which is in front of the pivot pin ll, fits more or less closely into the adjacent part of the depression I. Hence said rib 2| acts as a stop to limit the clamping movement of the top member ll relative to the intermediate member I.

The member I is freely tumable in the collar I of the member I, said collar embracing the reduced portion 30 of member 1. Partial collars I! and- [2a prevent relative longitudinal movement of turnable member 1 relative to the bottom member I.

The channel It permits the depression of finger hold ll, so that the top clamping member-can be turned away from member I, so that the outer end of alock of hair can be inserted between members I and I O, to be clamped between said members.

In using this device, the two shanks of a hair pin are inserted into the respective bores 3 and t and the device is used as described in said U. S. Patent No. 2,039,789. when a lock of hair is wound spirally around the members I and II, while they are in the position shown in Fig. 1, after the outer end of said lock of hair has been clamped between members I and I I, the effect oi the winding of the lock of hair under tension, is to force the member II with considerable pressure against the member 1. However, by employing the stop previously mentioned, namely the front portion of the rib 2|, excessive clamping pressure is prevented, so that the spirally the finger hold II may be depressed while sliding the spirally wound lock off the holder, although this is not necessary. After the lock of hair has been wound once or twice around the members 1 and ID, the tension on the lock of hair, during the winding, can be increased, without pulling the outer end of the lock of hair out of the holder, due to the friction of the superposed spiral turns of the lock of hair.

Fig. 6 is generally the same as that shown in Fig. 1, save that in Fig. 6 the members of the holder are shown as being of unequal length. In Fig. 6 I have illustrated the bottom member I as being longer than the intermediate and top members of the holder, but this relation could be reversed. Likewise Fig. 6 shows the member 1 provided with a relatively short and tapered bore thereto by means of a. pivot pin 21. The parts are normally held in the position shown in Fig. 11 by means of a blade spring II.

In the embodiment shown in Figs. 10-12 the holder tube 25 is provided with a rounded tip Ila. The cross-sections of said tip 25:; form a series of circles of successively diminishing diameter. and the longitudinal surface elements of said roundedtip Ila are curved lines.

As shown in Fig. 13 said surface elements may be straight lines, so that said tip 25b would have a general frusto-conical shape. The tip of the member I may be shaped as shown in Fig. 12 or Fig. 13. This shape causes the outer shank of the hair pin to be held inclined to the holder and sumciently spaced from the inner shank, so that the spirally wound lock of hair can be slipped easily in a longitudinal direction between the shank and the holder.

Referring to Fig. 10, this shows the shank of the hair pin H located within the tube 25, the other shank of said hair pin being external thereto. By making said tip Ila with straight line surface elements, the outer shank of the hair pin can always -be made to assume a definite angle to the central longitudinal axis of the tube 25.

In using the embodiment shown in Figs. 10-12, the end of the lock of hair L can be clamped between the hollow tube 25 and the clamping member 26, and the lock of hair can then be wound up spirally around said' members 25 and 28, in the usual manner.

The lock of hair can then be shifted longitudinally so that said lock of hair is shifted over that shank of the hair pin which is held within the hollow tube 25 and around the axis of said shank so that the entire lock of hair is released from the clamping member 26, and all of said lock of hair or a part thereof is located between the two shanks of the hair pin, around the axis of one of said shanks. The tube 25 holds the lock of hair spaced from the inner shank of the hair pin.

The hair pin and the lock of hair can then be moved longitudinally in unison, until the hair pin and the lock of hair are removed from the member 25, whereupon the resilient hair pin H can be caused to clamp the lock of hair between the shanks thereof, so that the hair pin serves to hold the lock of hair in curled formation, until the hair has been set.

The embodiment shown inFig. 6 can be used in the same manner as that shown in Figs. 10-12.

In the embodiment shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the spirally wound lock of hair has its ends located longitudinally between the ends of the shank of the hair pin which is located in bore 8, so that the longitudinal shifting of the lock of hair is not necessary in order to locate the lock of hair in proper position around one of the shanks of the hair pin.

For example, the hair pin H represents a resilient clip. The lock of hair is wound so as to form a hollow spiral, having contacting turns.

According to the method which is described in connection with Fig. 10, said hollow spiral is shifted longitudinally until one of the shanks of th hair pin or resilient clip enters said hollow spiral, the shank of the hair pin at this point being spaced laterally from the inner wall of said hollow spiral.

, The device is then operated so that the spirally wound lock of hair is clipped between the two shanks of the hair pin.

Of course the same relative movement could be secured by longitudinally shifting the holder and the hair pin in unison, relative to the lock of hair, until the inner shank of the hair pin which is shown in Fig. 10 enters the spirally wound lock of hair.

The bottom member and the intermediate member I which are shown in Fig. 1, can be made sufiiciently long relative to the clamping member l so that the hair pin is held in said holder with its shanks longitudinally spaced from the clamping member Ill as well as being laterally spaced therefrom.

Likewise the bores 3 and 8 which are shown in Fig. 1 may be made relatively short, so that the hair pin is held with its shanks longitudinally spaced from the adjacent inner end of the clamping member ID, as shown in Fig. 6.

The stop construction which is provided by the rib 2| and the cooperating portion of the recess 9, limits the movement of the clamping member M to its operative clamping position so that the lock of hair is clamped with greater force adjacent the pivot member of said clamping member, than adjacent the inner or free end of said clamping member.

In the specific embodiment shown in Figs. 1

t and 6. the clamping member ID has longitudinal 2. A hair curling device comprising a holder for a hair pin, said holder having a portion curled spirally around the second portion and the clamping. member, said holder being dimensioned so that the first portion thereof holds the shanks of the hair pin longitudinally spaced from the lock of hair which is formed around said second portion and the clamping member.

3. A hair curling device comprising a holder which is shaped to hold a hair pin, a clamping device-associated with said holder, said holder being shaped so as to hold the hair pin longitudinally spaced from the adjacent inner end of the clamping member. a

4. A hai'r curling device comprising a holder which is shaped to hold a hair pin, a clamping device associated with said holder, said holder being shaped so as to hold the hair pin longitudinally spaced from th adjacent inner end of the clamping member, the tip of said holder which receives the shank of the hair pin being tapered and having straight-dine external longitudinal surface elements.

5. A hair curling device comprising a first member and a second member which are turnable relative to each other, said second member having a sleeve-like shape, said first member and said second member being adapted to receive and to hold the ends of the shanks of a hair pin, said sleeve-like second member having a channel extension at the rearend thereof, a clamping member turnably connected to said sleeve-like the surface of the member I, or by shaping the I clamping member l0 so as to secure said relative angle when the inside surface of the clamping member In abuts the adjacent parts of the surface of the member 1, near the pivot pin I I. This would also produce a device in which the main clamping efiect is produced near the pivot pin II, and this clamping efiect can be limited in' area so that the relative longitudinal movement can be secured between the holder and the spiral- 1y wound lock of hair without manually manipulating the clamping member l0 so as to release it from the lock of hair.

I have shown preferred embodiments of my invention but it is clear that numerous changes and omissions can be made without departing from itsspirit.

-I claim:

1. A method of curling hair which consists in member by a pivot pin which is located in said channel extension, said clamping member having a first portion which extends over said sleevelike member and having a second portion which is located in said channel member and below the top edges of said channel member, and a spring located in said channel member andoperative to urge said clamping member to its clamping position.

6. A hair curling device comprising a first member and a second member which are turnable relative to each other, said second member having a sleeve-like shape, said first member and said second member being adapted to receive and to hold the ends of the shanks of ahair pin, said sleeve-like second member having a channel extension atthe rear end thereof, a clamping member tumably connected to said sleeve-like member by a pivot pin which is lo- .cated in said channel extension, said clamping member having a first portion which extends over said sleeve-like member and having a second portion which is located in said channel member a'nd below the top edges of said channel member, and a spring located in said channel SAMUEL FREEMAN. 

